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Immersing yourself in a mosh pit of like-minded wasted music festival attendees is highly appealing to many young and young at heart individuals. The relentlessly pumping bass beat drones loudly on like an anthem to zombiehood. Bright eyed, and with enlarged pupils, beautiful young things parade around dressed in rags and black. Tattoos are de…

Global News reported that drugs and sex are the two most common problems that plague the music industry and some music festivals. In fact, you can see people selling drugs, even before the start of these events. When there are drugs, there is sex. These two always go hand in hand. During last year’s Coachella…

Punk rock music has a great history in Australia, with some awesome seminal bands leading the way. Bands like Radio Birdman, The Saints, Nick Cave’s Boys Next Door, Kim Salmon’s Cheap Nasties and The Scientists, were all at the forefront of the whole punk thing in the early seventies. Many of the members of these…

The globe is connected by billions of wires linking the digital world to everyone who plugs in. Punks are plugged in and sharing their stuff with other punks from the West to China and everywhere in-between. What is the definition of a punk? The archaic word root origin is English from the sixteenth century and…

When you really think about it disabled punks have more to be angry about than your usual rebellious middle class white boy or girl who may be angry at mummy and daddy because they live in the suburbs. For the disabled, society dumps all over them all the bloody time. Try and get a good…

What is a punk’s preferred form of contraception? Of course, we are talking about punks of both genders here, Ms Punk and Mr Punk. Yep lady punks sometimes get pregnant and become mummy punks, replacing nihilism with nurturing, which may not always work so well for a bloke punk’s image. As Clint Eastwood famously said,…

Can a horse be punk? When flicking through images of ‘so called’ punk horses, the horse with its mane erect, Mohawk fashion is nominated as the archetypal punk horse. I think this is based on the cavalry mounted barbarian from history or depictions of them in art. The barbarian, a bit like the punk, was…

Crust punk is characterized by raw noise, bassy sound, blast beats and guttural screams. It’s very metallic with some elements of speed metal and death metal. Crust core is another variant of this genre, it’s less metallic based in hardcore punk and closer to grind core. Anti-fascism, anti-war, critiques of government, social ill, dystopian future…

“Better to burn out than fade away,” from the seminal eighties movie Highlander, which apparently sourced it from Neil Young, and Kurt Cobain included the line in his suicide note; so it has real gravitas my friend. Punk rockers should “not go quietly into the night” counting their money and getting fat in the suburbs….